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Uriel’s attack on rabbinical legalism could just as easily have been drawn from sources in both Christian and Jewish traditions. The notion that a purer Judaism had been corrupted and usurped by the Talmudists had been a commonplace of Christian (and especially New Christian) polemics, but it was also the defining criterion of the Karaites.
The Story of the Jews Volume 2: When Words Fail: 1492--Present
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